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Abbott, Albert H. (1900). Experimental
psychology and the laboratory in Toronto. University of Toronto Monthly, 1, 85-98, 106-112. [A defense of the
viability of experimental psychology against its 19th-century opponents,
followed by description of the expanded Toronto laboratory, first established
by J.M. Baldwin in 1891.]

Aristotle. (ca. 350 BC). De anima (J. A. Smith, Trans.).
Originally published in Ross, W. D. (Ed.) (1930). The works of Aristotle
(vol. 3). Oxford: Clarendon Press. ["The Philosopher's" main psychological
work. Book I is mainly criticism of what had gone before. Book II focuses on
perception. Book III is mainly about the intellect.]

Aristotle. (ca. 350 BC). On memory and reminiscence (J. I. Beare,
Trans.).
Originally published in Ross, W. D. (Ed.) (1930). The works of Aristotle
(vol. 3). Oxford: Clarendon Press. [A short work, part of the Parva Naturalia,
that follows from De anima.]

Baldwin, James Mark. (1930). Autobiography of James Mark Baldwin. In C.
Murchison (Ed.), History of psychology in autobiography (Vol. 1, pp.
1-30). Worcester, MA: ClarkUniversity Press. [The great
developmentalist's own summary of his life's work.]

Baldwin, James Mark, Cattell,
James McKeen, & Jastrow, Joseph. (1898). Physical
and mental tests. Psychological Review, 5, 172-179. [An
account of an early attempt at what we would now call intelligence testing.]

Binet, Alfred. (1916). New
methods for the diagnosis of the intellectual level of subnormals. In E. S.
Kite (Trans.), The development of intelligence in children. Vineland, NJ: Publications of the Training
School at Vineland. (Originally published 1905 in L'Année
Psychologique, 12, 191-244.) [Description of Binet's approach in
intelligence testing, and of the original version of the most influential of
all intelligence tests.]

Bowen, Francis. (1860). Remarks on the latest form of the development
theory. Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, n.s., VIII,
pp. 98-107, communicated March 27, April 10 and May 1,
1860.
Reprinted in G. Daniels (Ed.) (1968). Darwinism comes to America. Waltham, MA: Blaisdell, pp. 66-74.

Ebbinghaus, Hermann. (1913). Memory: A contribution to experimental
psychology (Henry A. Ruger & Clara E. Bussenius, Trans.). Originally published in New York by Teachers College, ColumbiaUniversity. (Original German work Über das
Gedächtnis published 1885). [The most important work on memory in the 19th
century; originated the use of nonsense syllables.]

Freud, Sigmund. (1913). The interpretation of dreams (3rd
ed.). (A. A. Brill, Trans.). Originally published in New York by Macmillan.(Original German work
published 1900.) [The classic psychoanalytic work on dreams.]

Freud, Sigmund (1914). The
psychopathology of everyday life. (A. A. Brill, Trans.). Originally
published in London by T. Fisher Unwin. (Original German work published 1901.) [The classic
psychoanalytic account of the underlying meaning of slips of the tongue,
forgotten names, etc.]

Freud, Sigmund. (1917). The history of the psychoanalytic movement
(A. A. Brill, Trans.). Originally published in New York by the Nervous and Mental Disease
Pub. Co. (Original German work published
1914.) [Freud's own account of the development of the institutions of
psychoanalysis, and of his splits with Adler and with Jung.]

Hume, James Gibson. (1892). Physiological psychology. Minutes of the
Twenty-First Annual Convention of the Ontario Teachers' Association, pp. 86-106. [Review and idealist
critique of the state of scientific psychology in the 1890s by a charter member
of the APA.]

Jastrow, Joseph. (1935). Has psychology failed?American Scholar, 4,
261-269. [The founder of the Wisconsin psychology department gives his final
evaluations of behaviorism and psychoanalysis, and proposes a psychology based
on evolutionary theory.]

Lange, Carl Georg. (1885). The
mechanism of the emotions. Trans. by Benjamin Rand, first appeared in Rand, Benjamin (Ed.)(1912). The
Classical Psychologists (pp. 672-684). [The "other" source of the
James-Lange theory of emotion.]

Lange,
Ludwig. (1888/2009). New experiments on the process of the simple
reaction to sensory impressions. (Trans. By David D. Lee of Neue
Experimente über den Vorgang der einfachen Reaction auf Sinneseindrücke.) Philosophische
Studien, 4, 479-510. (in .pdf). [The article by Wundt's future assistant
that claimed distinct "sensory" and "muscular" types of
reaction, thereby setting off a debate (Cattell, Baldwin, Titchener, Angell)
that led to the school of Functionalism.]

Münsterberg, Hugo. (1899). Psychology and history. Psychological Review,
6, 1-31. [Münsterberg's APA Presidential address about the
epistemological relation between the natural and the normative sciences. First
English discussion of idiographic and nomothetic methods, later popularized by Gordon
Allport.]

Münsterberg, Hugo. (1908/1925). On the witness stand. [Attempt to sell the
insights and methods of scientific psychology to the legal community;
foreshadows many of today's issues in forensic psychology.]

Münsterberg, Hugo. (1913). Psychology and industrial efficiency.
[Attempt to sell the insights and methods of scientific psychology to the
industry; major early contribution to industrial/organizational psychology.]

Peirce, Charles Sanders
& Jastrow, Joseph (1884). Small
differences in sensation. Memoirs of the NationalAcademy of Sciences, 3, 73-83. [Peirce's
probabilistic critique of Fechner's concept of the discrimination threshold.
Possibly the first published American experimental psychological study.]

Plato. (ca. 360 BC). Timaeus (B. Jowett, Trans.) [Plato's
description of the origin of the cosmos; includes his account of the origin and
nature of the psyche.]

Poe, Edgar Allan. (1850). Mesmeric
revelation. [A story about a session of mesmerism on the patient's
deathbed.]

Madden, E. H.(1963). The metaphysics of self-consciousness.
Chapter 7 of Chauncey Wright and the foundations of pragmatism (pp.
128-142). Reprinted by permission of University of Washington Press.

Wundt, Wilhelm Max. (1874/1902/1904). Principles of physiological psychology (Edward
Bradford Titchener, Trans.) (from the 5th German ed., published 1902; 1st
German ed. published 1874.)[Classic text by the founder of the first
psychological research laboratory.]